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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
THE AMERICAN WIFE.
Her Rights Superior to Those Enjoyed by
Women OF Other Countries.


Women OF Other Countries.
There is no married woman SO COM
pletely one with her husband, as
a well married American woman.
The English husband is masterful
and his wife is regarded as his
inferior in every way. He must be
appealed to on every question, from
dress to servants. A Frenchman ex-
poets his wife to live on nothing, COM
parativcly, and her dress money must
be saved out of the household expenses,
or earned in some way. The American
husband makes his wife his equal. Her
interests are his; his interests are hers.
She knows his business and whether
they can have 81, 200 or 5000 year
to spend. She keeps track of the
market, the crops, the strikes and has
q clear conception Of every general and
personal matter that comes under her
inspection. An Englishwoman knows
nothing of her husbands business mat
teas; not any more than does his busi-
ness clerk know what goes on in his
masters house. The wife never knows
If her husband is making fortune or
is on the brink of bankruptcy. She ID
given so much for dress and SO much
for household expenses, and she feels
no surprise II at the end Of ayear they
move into larger and more commodious
quarters. II she is told to pack up and
be ready to leave she asks no questions
but moves with the furniture. e.-Detroil
Tribune.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10

lonesome, II II was not for me. Ihelp
her lots; and have been very busy since
you went away off to grandpa's house;
but want you to come home and play
with me. Charlie; for all I have got in
my playhouse now is one old rubber,
papa's old slipper, ciothes-pin, the
stove-mg and those old bones. And I
am so tired of trying to catch my tail;
run round as fast rs l can, but it al
ways seems to go little faster than 1
do. I believe Ill try it once more
though, rs I have few minutes to
spare. No, can't catch it.
Oh, how wish mamma would come
and make up my bed! pull it out
every morning, and drag it all over the
yard to air it, and she makes it up ev-
cry night.
Mamma will have to copy this and 1
shall make my mark with my paw.
Perhaps I'll tell some more some-
time, Charlie, but I'm too tired now.
So no more tonight. From
Your loving little dog, TIP"
Good Cheer.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
Chasing an lce-Floe.

A venturesome boy, who was skating
with some companions ON the Ken
lucky river, was carried out into the
stream on broken piece of ice, that
was at once seized by an ice-floe and
carried rapidly away. The boys COM
panions were powerless to assist him,
but rushed home and told his father.
The parent mounted horse and pur-
sued the ice-floe down tho river, over
taking it three miles below the point
whence it had started. For twenty
miles further the father golloped along
the river-bank. encouraging his son to
hold out, and then boat was secured
and the boy rescued.-Golden Days.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10

To facilitate the operation Of plaster
ing device has lately been invented.
termed plasterer's platform. which ia
set on castors and may be elevated or
lowered to wall or ceiling as the conve-
nicnco of the workman may require.
Accompanying this arrangement Is an
improved two-hand trowel. and the
platform Is capable of extension in u
horizontal as well as In . vertical di-
rection. Thus. by the combined use of
the two. all cumbersome staging as
the old-time hod and short single
handed trowel are dispensed with. Tho
mortar 10 placed In an extensible
trough. which is suspended on the plat
form at . point and In manner oonvs-
nient 70 workmen; tho apparatus can
readily be moved endwise from room
70 room. and the cost Of laying on
either plaster or hard finish ID said "a
b thus much reduced d-N. u Sur.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
WISE SAYINGS.

-Soh love exaggerates both our
faults and our virtues.-Gosthe.
Thought is invisible nature-nature
is invisible thought. Heinrich Heine.
The noontide sun is dark. and
music discord, when the heart is lOw.-
Young.
Great hearts alone understand how
much glory there is in being good
Micheiet. yt
II I can put one touch Of rosy
sunset into the life Of any man or
woman, shall feel that have worked
with God.-Georye McDonaM.
Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day in the year. No
man has learned any thing rightly un-
til hc knows that every day is dooms-
day.-Baptfst Weekly.
1t is a belief In the Bible. the fruits
of deep meditation. which has served
me as the guide OF my moral and lit
crary life. found it capital safely
invested and richly productive Of inter-
est.-Goethe. -.
II have read the Bible through
many times. It Is book Of all others
for lawyers. as well as divines. and
pity the man who can not find In 1t q
rich supply Of thought and rule for
conduct. Daniel Webster. q.f
II need Saviour to save me.
have NO salvation till l find Saviour.
A person ] must have. The highest
truth will not save me. further than as
1t brings me to the Saviour. that He
may give. and may get eternal life
Dr.. John Duncan.
In this sea OF life we must all work
our passage to the other side II we are
to get there hopefully. There is no
such thing M paying our way iu nd
vancc and riding at ease while enjoy
ing the labors OF others. The labor
ers" are they who will be welcomed on
the other sh0re. ~ United PresbyterjGM.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
PROGRESS IN ASIA.
Complete Abolition Of Slavery in the Ric
Province or state Of BOkhara.

Complete Abolition Of Slavery in the Rich
Province or state Of BoIxhsra.
Bokhara, the noble, the richest, most
enlightened and most holy of all Mo-
hammedan nations in Central Asia and
beyond it, has just officially declared
the complete abolition of slavery. Up
to the present this curse had not alto
gether disappeared, although it was
generally assumed that since Russia
secured control over the Ameer's coun-
try it had quite ceased to exist. Four
teen years ago M. Eugene Schuyler,
the author of "Toorkistan." in order to
demonstrate to the Russian Govern
ment that the prestige had not put
stop to the slave trade, as was then al
legged, purchased a young boy slave for
one hundred rubles, the average price
of the human article in Bokhara, and
brought him to st. Petersburg. The
boy was subsequently apprenticcd to a
Tartar matchmaker here, and later be-
came convert to the Russian church.
According to a letter in the Russian
Official Gazette the young Ameer's
decree finally freeing all the
bondmen within his dominion was
promulgated on the 10Th of last Novem-
ber. In 1873 his father, the late Seid
Muzzafar, undertook to effect general
emancipation within ten years, and the
open traffic in human flesh on the pub
lie market was soon put an end to, but
the nefarious business was still carried
on secretly and winked at by the Box
hara officials. The treatment of the
Bokharan slave appears to have been
on the whole exceptionally kind, and
in many cases the poor wretch received
his freedom just before dying, so that
he might have a fair chance of admit
tance into the paradise of the faithful.
Nearly all the slaves in Bokhara came
from Persia, and were bought from the
man-stealing Turcomans of The inter-
vening deserts, who kidnapped them
during their frequent ''salamans," or
battues for cattle and human beings
alike, on the Khorassan borders. The
Russian conquest of Turcomania was
naturally the death-blow to both .'ala-
man" raids and the slave trade. and tho
decree above mentioned is the official
confirmation of the complete disap-
rearance Of all traces Of the latter
scourge in Bokhara. - 81. Petersbura
Cor. LONDON Times.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
"Nine In the Family"

A little girl of eight summers stepped
into the store of IN Italian fruit-vcnder
the other day to buy some peanuts.
She was going to make call upon a
friend. and wished to bring something
with her to add to the entertainment.
Stepping up to the fruit-vender, she
said: II want five cents worth of pea
nuts, and" looking appealingly into
the Italians face, ''plesse give me a
lot, for there's nine in the family. -
Boston Budget.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
FOR SUNDAY READING.
HELPING TIME.

"Thc poor We have always with you, and wten
'oeUer ye uiH ye may do them good."-Aa,k rir., =
Out in the gloom Of night,
Out In the winds and wet
You might hear the tread OF tired feet,
Tramping wearily down the street.
Out in the wind and wet.
Out in the friendless world,
Out in the ptiless cold,
A hapless wanderer has to roam,
Far from shelter end far from homo--
Out in the pitiless cold.
Out in the bowling wind,
Out in the drifting snow.
With rag Of o shawl to keep her warm,
A woman is Drawing the winter storm
Out in the drifting snow.
Dry and CLASSY her eye,
Faint and sinking her heart,
In garret alone she lies ut last,
Like u soddcn flower meath Autumn's
blast
Faint and sinking her heart.
There through the riftcd cloud,
Fitful the moonbeams fall,
Gliding u moment her upturncd face,
Faded. yet fair, with tender grace
Fitful the moonbeams fall
The work long sought lies by,
mo money till nll Is dOne,
So this starving creature was harshly told
BY one who had wealth Of yellow gold
No money till all is done.
Long and toilsome the task,
But not one stitch did she;
For angels came to that lonesome room,
And bore her far from its chilly gloom
So not q stitch did she!
Far from want and cold,
Far from wind and wet,
Sheltered and safe in the Heavenly fold,
She is watched und tended with love un.
told
Far from wind and wet.
Beyond all human MD,
We can not help her now,
The time for needing that is past,
She resteth satisfied at last
We can not help her now.
But stretch a saving hand
To other suffering souls,
And lie. all succor and aid be given
Now on this side Of hope and Heaven
To other suffering souls.
The helping time is short,
The privilege is great,
And when the Master shall say to thee:
Il count IL nll us il done to Me-"
The yec0mpeHse is great.
London Christian.
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forgiveness rs told in tale Of the sew.
enteenth century. A Turkish grandee
in Hungary made Christian noble-
man his prisoner and treated him with
the utmost barbarity. The slave, for
such he was, was yoked with an OK and
compelled to drag the plow. But the
fortune of war is changing; and the
Turk fell into the hands of the Hunga-
rians, who said to their en'lavcd fell
low-countryman: "Now take your re-
vcngc upon your enemy" This was
in accordance with the custom of the
age. and the Turk, supposing as mat
ter of course that he would be tortured
to death, had already swallowed poi
son, when messenger came from his
Christian slave, telling him to go in
peace, he had nothing to fear. The
Moslcm was SO impressed with this
Heavenly spirit that he proclaimed
with his dying breath: II will not die
Moslem, but l die q Christian; for
there is no religion but that Of Christ
which teaches forgiveness of injuries"
A forgiving nature is the result of per-
severing cultivation. Socrates, when
he was abused in comedy, laughed at
it; when Polyargus, not able to endure
such an indignity, went and hanged
himself.
Cowdray says: GAS a seal leaves q
mark for itself in the way, whereby it
is known, so it is with every one who
has readiness to forgive others; for
by it the Christian may know that God
hath sealed the forgiveness of his sins
upon his heart"
We should forgive our enemies even
as Christ forgivcs us, quickly, freely,
fully. When Mr.. Wesley was on his
voyage with General Oglethorpe to
Georgia the General threatened revenge
upon an offending servant, saying: II
never forgive" "Then 1 hope, sir"
said Mr.. Wesley, "you never sim"
The General, feeling the force of the
rebukc. modified his action towards the
Christian at Work.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS
QUEER JOSHUA DOW.



In place 1t matters little to know,
There lived the queerest kind Of lad
You might COLL him good, or call him bad.
What made him queers I'll let you see,
II you'll just for minute listen to me:
And Joshua Dow had father and mother;
Ho was rather good-ioolking, his clothes were
He'd the best Of homes, and plenty to eat,
And sure this boy was nobody's fool;
He learned his lessons, und went to school
Now wait q little, and you shall hear:
He had the queerest kind Of q way,
II followed him, all through his work and play
Arnt you glad he wasn't one of you brotherss-
OF forgetting some things, and remembering
others.
He .forgot" to rise at his fathers CALI
"Forgot," and turned his face to the wall,
But never was known to forget to cat @
As soon as ever he got on his feet.
''1'n do It, mother!" said Joshua Dow,
When he bade her goodbye with his incest bow
Sometimes, when he'd started on his way,
Only intent on his boyish play,
And his mother asked him an errand to do,
And he'd smile in her face SO fond and true,
Then his mind would wander, he'd rather not,
But generally Joshua Dow forgot"
Forgot the errand, I mean TO say,
But nothing concerning HE work or play.
Said Grandpa Joshua, Just for one day,
Keep up the bars, I'm going away"
'Ycs. SIR" he said, "that's easy to do;
I'll mend my rod tomorrow, too."
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
THE QUESTION ANSWERED.

Brightly was the moon inclining
Ger her honeysuckled door;
Sweet was night-in silver shining;
Yet she yearned for something more.
PerfuA, IS were her senses sleeping
In a fl.tnt vet subtle tide;
Fragrant breath OF roses sleeping
Left Ecr still unsatisfied.
Mid the iilacs, soft lsmenting.
Grieved the plaintive nightingale;
Yet she coldly, half resenting,
Listened listless to his tale.
Though night such peace possessing
Should all captiousncss disarm,
Yet she found herself confessing
Nature somehow failed 70 charm
Did the moon smile down too brightly?
Love-bird weary with his trilly
Roses cense the air too slightly!
Whnt--oh what-was lacking still!
As she pondered thus In sadness,
Stole her Lover from the door,
elapsed her to his heart in gladness.
Then the night lacked nothing more,
Temple Bar,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
The 0lsan ef ths Opal.

The opal has conquered superstition. n
has cleaned in VII it, evssive beauty this
sAasoa, and yet not ., rsproach has been
cast upon the witchery, whether In ring
or in scarf-pin. Rut there are good opals,
and, though only ono In . thousand brings
bed luck 70 it, possessor, beware Of the
depths. sIis an IMP that turks there, and
~ full Of deviltry and mischief. An
epal with pale emerald lights mingled
with It, changing Ares seems = have .
ssgood spirit'' 'imprisoned in it. bosom, and
looks - virtpous end pure - any pssyi
dragged from the ocean. .0.I7t
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
Applying Lesso n-Trutl,l

Every Bible lesson has its special phase
Of fitness 70 each Individual scholar II is
teachers privilege to observe and to point
out tbs personal application of tho truth to
every scholar Of his charge. In prepara-
tion for this service, 1t Is well for a teacher
to run over in his mind, while studying his
lesson, tho several members Of his claas,
and to decide which Of tho lesson truths -
most applicable there. This will enablo the
teacher TO know more of the practical value
Of the lcsson-truths, for himself; oven il
his scholars arc not made the gamers there
by.-S. S Times. 4
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10

Messrs. Holmes, coach-makers Of Derby,
have just received state coach belong
ing to the Queen. II In one Of the Queens
six dress state coaches, and has been
made nearly equal to now. It is an ex.
ceedingly handsome vehicle. The armorial
bsarings are Of gold, - well ~ the door.
handles, and the crost and Order of st.
George on the roof The carriage 10 paint
ed vermillion, picked out with gold, and
the springs and all the ironwork are gilt.
Tho doors and the back and front are
ornamented with the royal arms, and the
smaller parts have Representations upon
them Of the Grown and Garter and the
Order Of st. George The coach 10 lined
with blue silk and four thousand leaves OF
cloth OF gold have been used in the deoora.
ton. ~
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Sunday-Schooi Lessons.

FIRST QUARTER 1887.
Mar. 6.-Abraham Offering
Isaac Gen. 22:3-14
Mar. 13.-Jacob ut Bethel. -. Gen. 2S:10-22
Mar. 20.--Jacobs New Name Gen. 30 :912 24-30
Mar. 2T.-Review Temperance Lesson Gen. 81:
1927; Missionary Lesson, Gen. IS: 1876. Or q
Service of Song and Prayer.
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while man lives in this world he
seldom gets credit for all he does and
says. When he dies he gets credit for
three times rs much as he ever did or
said. -Baltimory An,ericon. ~
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-24
GIVE IT Up CHBERFULLY
DOT RT ONCE

Therefore, during the next 80 days, every
article in my large stock of Watches, Clocks,
Jewelrv ,Silverware, SpectacieS, Eye Glasses,
Accordians, Guitars, etc, will be sold with
out regard tn profit market value, but at
prices certain to force them from my shelves
mt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-24

my head came up inside the turkeys
jumped on to it and the way they
scratched and beat me with their wings
and feet was simply awful! | craw-
fished out in hurry. I cut me hick-
ory stick about foot long and era wled
back on my side with my arm over
my face and head. They charged on
me agaih, but / commenced knocking
their heads with my stick, and it was
MT lGTg before / had them running
around the pen crying "qult, quit,
quitu' | soon made an end of them, and
found [ had five of the biggest old
mountain gobblers you ever saw. /
got them outside and tied their heads
together, and was going to put them
on my horse. but I could not lift them;
so | had to divide them and take two
at a time, and putting them on, then
went home with my load. Wasn't /
proud of it! and didn't we have Christ
mas turkey to our hearts content.
After that we had all the turkey we
could use.
That same winter we boys were look
ing along the creek, and we noticed a
great many large sugar-trees and an
old arch where the natives had some
time made sugar. AS it was sixteen
miles to the nearest store, and sugar a
rather scarce article, we asked ourselves
the question, "wby not make our own
sugar? We have nothing else to do"
So we asked father if he had any ohjec-
tions to our going into the sugar bust
ness. He said, mo, but don't be-
lieve you will do any good at it. How
ever, if you want to try, you can do
so:'' and gave us horse and sled, and
barrel to put the sap in. tSap is what
the Yankees call sugarwater.) We
went to WORK making troughs to catch
the sap in. / shall never forget how /
sweated making those first troughs!
saw some tall, slim sycamore trees that
l til ought would make beautiful
troughs-they were so fair and smooth;
but alas! things are not what they
seem. | did not know much about the
different kinds of wood and their pecu-
liarities (having always been girl (?)
and worked in the house till we came
west so 1 chopped down some of those
nice smooth trees and cut them into
| leng,h hs for troughs; then tried to split
them but you might as we'll try to split
a rams horn. Didn't sweat? 1 did,
but didn't give up. chopped them
i'm two and made every cut into
troughs, and they were good ones, too;
but 1 didn't get any more sycamore for
that purpose. One of our neighbors
told us to get hickory and cherry trees;
they we're much better. Now L have
thought some people in this world that
I have seen were like those sycamore
trees-just as straight and just as fair
why they are so straight they lean a
little the other way; but youjust make
some use of them, and you will find
them the crossest grained things you
ever saw; you can't make sugar-troug
or rails, or anything else, of them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-24

st. Francois County Democrat:
"Much has been said of the Doe Run
Mines, of Wales Mines. and of the
Mines at Bonne Terre, but not much
attention has been recently paid, by
the public, TO the Hazel Run Mines.
These mines were known, and to soma
extent operated, sixty years ago; but
owing to the large quantity CT water
which flows between the surface and
the mineral, operations have always
been on limited scale. DR.. J. r. Nc
Cormick now owns 100 acres of land
embracing these mines, and he informs
US that two parties are working one at
at depth of 40 feet below the surface
and one at depth of so feet. The
mineral lies in fissure in the rocks,
which at the depth of forty feet is thir-
ty feet wide, but at depth of eighty
feet is only twenty feet wide. The
Doctor proposes to place ar engine and
pumps there next summer to remove
the water, and if the output will justify
he will also erect furnace there. Old
settlers say, that at one time, Hazel
Run was the most important business
point in st. Francois County"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-24
Old Times.

Ed. While sitting in your
, office few days ago looking over your
exchanges and reading the comments
| on the weather, l could not h he1p think
ing of the first winter we were in the
valley, after having lived in the east
all our lives where the winters were
one steady cold from the time it set in
for winter until spring came. But here
we had mixture of spring, summer
and winter, as We are having this seas
on. 1t being our first year, and having
made no crop the summer before, we
had but little work to do, except to keep
fires, hunt, eat, and sleep and kill time.
The latter, to me, is the hardest work
| ever tried to do. I remember a day
or two before Christmas, there came an
inch or so of snow, and I found where
there were flock of wild turkeys
where Judge Holioman now lives. The
old hunters had told nee how to make
turkey-pen or trap; so the day before
Christmas / took my ak and q spade
and went out to the woods to make me
trap. First, / cleared q patch Of
ground large enough for my trap, then
dug a ditch, and cut saplings for the
walls and covering. | then laid pole
across the middle of the ditch, which
was about ten feet long, two feet wide,
and two feet deep; then laid other poles
SO as to make a pen about ten feet
square and two feet high. After max
ing a bridge across the trench next the
wall, | covered the whole pen over with
split poles, putting cross poles at each
end, and fastening them with withes
to the corners of the pen. When fin
ished, corn is scattered in front of the
Den and through the trench to the in
side of the pen. When the turkeys see
the corn, they run along picking it up,
going straight into the trench and up
inside the pen. When inside, and the
corn all gone, they look up and find
themselves prisoners; then they make
every effort to get out by running
around and round, sticking their heads
out through the cracks, never once
thinking of going out the same way
they came in. So you see the necessity
of the bridge across the trench. After
I had finished my pen to the best OF
my knowledge, l baited it well out
side and in, and went home. ] don't
believe / slept ten minutes that night
without dreaming about my trap and
the turkeys was sure to have in the
morning; 1 don't think a mser watch
es over his old with more anxiety
than I, in my dreams, did over my
turkey-pen. In the morning, as soon
as it was fairly day, got on my horse
and started for the turkey-pen. When
came in sight of it my heart fairly
stood still, for could see turkey heads
bobbing up through the top and out
the sides of it. Isprang off my horse
and crawled up tie trench to the in
side of the pen, but it didn't take me
long to get back again, for as soon as